Cyprus roads are a joke – but no one should be laughing

Am I alone in finding your article on headlights for motorcycles mildly amusing? Whilst the use of headlights is sensible, your photograph of a motorcyclist and pillion without helmets or leather protection, sums up all that is wrong with road safety in Cyprus.

The problem seems to me to be in the Cypriot genes. They seem to believe they are immune to accidents, whether in a car or on a bike.

The police do little to enforce the law, apart from cruising around all day with lights flashing, or parked on the motorway with a speed camera, which even here are the safest roads on the island.

If the police got out of their cars and manned busy junctions they would have a field day! That commonsense approach seems to elude them.

As someone from UK, we are overburdened with traffic laws. Here there needs to more enforcement of those sensible safety issues on the populace. When will it happen?

MD Whitehouse,
Paphos

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